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mowi(t)ch
[< Chinook ,mow-wich; cf. Nootka muwich]
B.C.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:mowitz
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a deer.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1846
Small deer . . . Wow-wich [sic]
1869
The deer made violent struggles for liberty, and the accused and a tillicum being near, they fired and shot the deer, thus enabling Mr. Herring to take the "mowitch" into his boat.
1915
Some times he would be hunting mowich (deer), or driving off the coyotes.
1964
[Headline] Mowich on Road Cause of Mishap.
2n.
the flesh of the deer used as food.
Quotations
1958
. . . twelve hours a day in the saddle, mowitch and bannock to eat, a makeshift tent and blanketless bed. . . .
1963
. . . the good breakfast of fried mowitch and bannock [was] being cooked by Henry's klootch.